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UV Light and Photoshop Return Color to 6 Million Year-Old Seashells
A researcher discovered 13 new species of sea snail using some clever photography.
Finding a New Species of Frog in New York Is Really Hard
Ecologist Jeremy Feinberg told us what it took to identify a new species in one of the least remote places.
Welcome to Earth: Our Four Favorite New Species
We humans suffer from a serious case of species bias. Any time a cuddly new mammal is found, it's all anyone can talk about. But when a hard-working zoologist classifies a new spider, fish, or isopod? Not so much.
A New Species of Jungle Cat Was Hiding in Plain Sight
Two separate populations have been split into two distinct species.
This Clear Snail Was Found Deep Under the Earth
More specifically, it was found at a depth of 908 meters in one of the deepest cave systems in the world.
A Whopping 71 New Species of Parasitoid Wasps Have Been Described
Four researchers scoured half the world looking for obscure wasps.
A New Species of Brazilian Porcupine Is Likely Endangered Already
Unfortunately for C. speratus, curling into a ball isn't going to protect it from its most existential threat.
A Tiny, See-Through Fish Was Recently Discovered in the Amazon, Is Totally Radical
The fish in question happens to be less than two centimeters long and is almost completely clear.
Meet the Awesome Yin Yang Frog, and the Other Newfound Members of the Animal Club
The Greater Mekong region, which includes parts of Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, is a hotspot for new discoveries.
Newly-Discovered Caribbean Lizards Are Rad, But Also Probably Extinct
In the largest batch of species discovery since the early 1800s, a team of researchers from Penn State University recently identified, and named 24 new species of lizards known as skinks, all from the Caribbean Islands.
Huge New Wasp Uses Giant Jaws for Sex, Possibly Spooning
Wasps are beautiful marvels of biology and physics, but don't feel bad if they creep you out. I mean, they can bite the hell out of you, and there's also the whole "injecting eggs into the skull of a spider" thing. A newly-discovered species ups the...
These Newly-Discovered Madagascar Chameleons are Unfathomably Tiny
Following in the (minute) footsteps of the world's smallest frog, the newest species to be welcomed to the ranks of the world's most ridiculously small animals are a quartet of chameleons from Madagascar. The little guys, which are some of the smallest...